(12) History. The student understands the origins of customs, holidays, and celebrations. The student is expected to:

(A) describe the origins of selected customs, holidays, and celebrations of the community, state, and nation such as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Independence Day, and Veterans' Day; 

(18) Social studies skills. The student communicates in written, oral, and visual forms. 

The student is expected to:
(A) express ideas orally based on knowledge and experiences; and(B) create visual and written material including pictures, maps, timelines, and graphs.

 Objective 1: The student will demonstrate an understanding of issues and events in U.S. history.

The students will read about and discuss famous black americans.  Using the information from the stories, videos and websites, the students will compare and contrast the people then with people now.   After the discussions, students will think about a dream they have for their community, their country, and their world.  Students will create a mobile "I Have a Dream..." and write about their dream .  Students will use a Kidspiration template to write the information from their mobile to make a class book to share with other classes.

What does it mean to be a good citizen?

Do you know what famous means? 

Why do we honor Marting Luther King and others important individuals on a special day?

What is a dream?  Can anyone have one?

What dream do you have for our community, our country, and our world?

Students will:

1.  Listen to storybooks about Martin Luther King and discuss how his dream affected people throughout the country.  Discuss how when he shared his dream with others that it impacted the whole country.
2.  Watch video of Martin Luther King's life.
3.  Use Kidspiration to make a timeline of Martin Luther King's life.
4.  Discuss what Dr. King's dream was and write down dreams of students.
3.  Show citizenship as individuals by developing a personal dream to help our community.  Discuss how this could change our world.
 5.  Use dream mobile to draw and write about a dream for the community, the country, and the world.
6.  Using the mobile, present orally to the class.
7.  Use the digital camera to take pictures of the presentations and make a movie of them using movie maker.

Knowledge  and Comprehension - facts about Martin Luther King's life

application - timeline

analysis - discussion on how Dr. King's life affected others

synthesis-developing an individual dream

evaluation-how does their dream affect our community?

Anchor Activity - Storybook

Adjusted questions -Difficulty of questions will be adjusted according to the ability level of the students.

graphic organizers - Kidspiration; timeline

Interest Based Investigations - Personal dream

laptop and projector to introduce information on famous black americans on internet

Journal writer to write personal dreams

Kidspiration - template timeline

digital camera and movie maker program

A Picture Book of Martin Luther King

Video on Martin Luther King

Character Education Program

Partner class